- Sun Jan 06, 2013 12:33 pm
#323408
Next thing to do was right rear corner. I used knife to examine the previous owners "repairs"...
In summer, when i had a first careful look at this corner, it was like this:
So much bondo straight on rust:
I have to fabricate the whole inner fenders backside again. Because of that "playing with the bondo", the whole enclosure is full of wet mud and sand and it has rusted from inside. Also the enclosures outer metal is really crunchy, but fortunately the repair piece i have will have that part too
Then i started to remove the rear suspension parts. Things went too good until i needed to remove the trailing arms inner bolt. In this time the suspension sitted on top of the jack and only the RTA inner bolt was attached. When i was removing the inner bolt things go little difficult...
No help from WD-40, heat, tenderness. Bolt got loose about 2cm, until i heard a sharp sound and the bolt was spinning like a crazy. First i thought that it snapped, but then i realized that it was the counterpart that ripped of.
I needed to track down the teared of piece:
And there it was:
Father wanted to weld it back, so i focused on snapping pictures.
Then my ASR replica arrived.
I still had my genuine ASR gen1 brace spacers and subframe backing plates, so i thought that i could test the replica because they are dirt cheap if you buy them straight from china. Replicas have _REALLY_ bad backing plates and spacers. They look very dangerous, so dont use them! They are also thicker than genuine pieces, so the bolts wont screw in too good. Also the bolts are grade 8.8, you shouldnt use them. I got grade 12.8 hex´s from local shop, so i will be using those. The brace itself looks like a very nicely machined and anodized piece of aluminum, but ofc its some unknown aluminum. It will do its job in this winterbeater project when combined with genuine ASR install hardware
In summer, when i had a first careful look at this corner, it was like this:
So much bondo straight on rust:
I have to fabricate the whole inner fenders backside again. Because of that "playing with the bondo", the whole enclosure is full of wet mud and sand and it has rusted from inside. Also the enclosures outer metal is really crunchy, but fortunately the repair piece i have will have that part too
Then i started to remove the rear suspension parts. Things went too good until i needed to remove the trailing arms inner bolt. In this time the suspension sitted on top of the jack and only the RTA inner bolt was attached. When i was removing the inner bolt things go little difficult...
No help from WD-40, heat, tenderness. Bolt got loose about 2cm, until i heard a sharp sound and the bolt was spinning like a crazy. First i thought that it snapped, but then i realized that it was the counterpart that ripped of.
I needed to track down the teared of piece:
And there it was:
Father wanted to weld it back, so i focused on snapping pictures.
Then my ASR replica arrived.
I still had my genuine ASR gen1 brace spacers and subframe backing plates, so i thought that i could test the replica because they are dirt cheap if you buy them straight from china. Replicas have _REALLY_ bad backing plates and spacers. They look very dangerous, so dont use them! They are also thicker than genuine pieces, so the bolts wont screw in too good. Also the bolts are grade 8.8, you shouldnt use them. I got grade 12.8 hex´s from local shop, so i will be using those. The brace itself looks like a very nicely machined and anodized piece of aluminum, but ofc its some unknown aluminum. It will do its job in this winterbeater project when combined with genuine ASR install hardware